Going above and beyond what people around me consider to be healthy. My friends and family are all overweight, tired, and stuck in lives they don’t really want. I cannot settle for that. I think the first step is getting healthy – to get healthy I have to start with what I feed myself. GIGO – right?

Why don’t I join a group? I worry about the time commitment involved in being a part of any group. I have set so many time consuming obstacles in my life that I am overwhelmed by them. Trying to begin to remove them but they are not ones that can just be dumped. Properties must be sold, etc. But I am listing one that has been the worst…[Read more]

Why don’t I cook? My husband gets home around 2:30pm every day. I commute an hour home and arrive about 5:30. I try so hard to eat light all day that I am usually starving when I walk in the door, so my husband has made it his mission in life to have dinner ready the same moment I arrive. He’s a fantastic husband, but his love is killing me. …[Read more]

Getting healthy would energize me and give me the ability to do what I want to do, go where I want to go, and feel happy doing it.

Being overweight somewhat, but mostly the strain the extra pounds puts on my back, drains me of energy. Not giving my body the right nourishment has caused me to slow down mentally and experience more fringe illness. I just don’t feel good much of the time, I’m tired and I can’t concentrate or remember things like I want to. This stops me…[Read more]

What motivates me is pleasing God. I am very serious about wanting to do what is most important with my life from his viewpoint. More and more I am letting go of things that I think just don’t matter to God – like material gain. Making a difference in the lives of others is what motivates me, really.

We just recently repaired our inground pool – making time to swim every day will help a lot! It’s back to that setting priorities thing. But also, it will improve our social life as we use it to gather friends and family for recreation and interaction.

My life really is that busy, but I could begin to make small changes in how I organize my day and set priorities – I realize that some things that keep me busy are making my life worse instead of better. It will take time to remove some of the stressors in time-suckers from my life, but I am realizing that it must be done. We have rental…[Read more]

My life would be a lot different if I could change my bad health habits, make my health the priority it needs to be, and find the motivation to make exercise a permanent regular part of my life. I would feel better, have more energy, and I know it would reduce my stress levels as I would not worry about living sick in old age.

My three top mental or emotional blockers? I worry too much about my weight in terms of how I look. I operate under the belief that I have to have cooperation from my husband in order to change my own habits (probably not true). When money is tight I sacrifice things like vitamins and organic foods as luxuries instead of always making health…[Read more]

My three top bad habits that keep me from being healthy and losing weight? I don’t exercise (I hate exercise). I eat fast food when I am in a hurry or too tired to cook. I don’t take time for relaxation and recreational activities.

Starting my journey, hoping to overcome the obstacles that prevent me from realizing my full health potential. I try to eat healthy, and take supplements, but the eating habits derail regularly if I don’t obsess on them, and I find it nearly impossible to motivate myself to exercise. My husband is my biggest saboteur – he eats candy, chips and…[Read more]